Item. The bright red colour of the ruby artifact of the Relict ancient race astonishes not only with its beauty. It increases the attack of all defense units by 1%, increases the magnetic effects, facilitating the search for metal deposits in the mines, increasing the base production of metal by 1%. (With each successive artifact effect falls). If artifact locates on a Space Station with a Gravity Gun, it will also increase the beam power by 1%.

The effect of several artifacts summarize, it does not occupy fields.

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The artifact can be stolen in case of a successful attack, if the attacker has shown “metal” as a priority exported resource when sending off the fleet. The artifact cannot be in a fleet which has no units for transportation. If the artifact stayed without the fleet’s units, which able to transport it or without the fleet, it will be destroyed.
Artefact can be eaten by Lexx.
It can be built in the Workshop. The recipe can be found in an expedition in the Babylon sector, which includes a Science Vessel (for Humans), a Queen (for Xerjs) and a Investigator (for Tosses), with a probability proportional to the expedition time in days.